TY - JOUR T1 - Bad Medicine: Private medicine practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 138 LP - 138 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X695141 VL - 68 IS - 668 AU - Des Spence Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/668/138.abstract N2 - I attended a standard comprehensive school. We sent our four children to a comprehensive school too, choosing a non-selective state comprehensive in the belief that they would get a better general education than anywhere else. Our view is not shared by everyone, for there are private schools and all manner of selective schools in the state sector. There’s much talk of equal opportunities, but schooling is the elephant in the room of inhibiting social mobility. If everyone attended the same local school, wouldn’t the whole of society have a vested interest in making it work? Wouldn’t common schooling foster … ER -